Chinese tea · one grid, one colour cell
Thirty-four Chinese teas set on a visible grid: letters and hanzi drawn from its cells, the photograph cropped to fit them, one cell of flat colour per page.
3 teas · 3 categories
The grid is not hidden here, it is drawn, and then everything else is made out of it. Letters take the cell as their unit, so an S becomes a stack of squares and a curve becomes a staircase, and the same rule is applied to the hanzi, which turns 龙井 into a pattern rather than a picture. That has a practical consequence for a shop working in two writing systems: roman and Chinese names occupy the same modular widths and can be set side by side without either one dominating. The photograph is cropped to the cell rather than the cell adjusted to the photograph, which keeps a bud of longjing and a brick of pu-erh at comparable weight. One cell of flat colour per page carries the category, and there is no second accent anywhere. Order is the whole argument — nothing is placed by eye, everything is counted.